Sources both inside and close to the White House are worrying about a
loss of energy among the President's base — or as one advisor colorfully
put it, the folks who'd "walk over glass" for Trump.Two trends that are troubling them:Trump's strong approval has fallen quickly:As Nate Silver outlines in this late May article
titled "Donald Trump's base is shrinking": "There's been a considerable
decline in the number of Americans who strongly approve of Trump, from a
peak of around 30 percent in February to just 21 or 22 percent of the
electorate now. (The decline in Trump's strong approval ratings is
larger than the overall decline in his approval ratings, in fact.)Far from having unconditional love from his base, Trump has already lost almost a third of his strong support."Slide among whites without college degrees: Only 46% of whites with no college degree
approve of the way Trump is handling his job as president, according to
the most recent Quinnipiac University poll. In the same poll in early
March, 60 percent of whites without college degrees — a group that was key to Trump's victory — approved of his job performance.

Currently the only thing more unpopular than Trump himself is his
health care bill, which has an approval rating of 17% at last glance.

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